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The Bishop Auckland 1 Line
A two generation Bishop Auckland family
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The
Story of the Bishop Auckland 1 Line
Thomas Farndale was the fourth son of George and Mary Farndale. He became a Miner in Bishop Auckland, who had a son and daughter, but died at the age of 32. This is a small family, branching from the Kilton 1 Line.
I am very grateful to Judith Bremer who has helped me with a lot of information about this family.
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Thomas Farndale 17 February 1822 to 28 March 1854 Married Isabella Bowes Miner in Bishop Auckland. Bishop Auckland, Kilton, Easby |
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William Farndale 1851 to 1919 A labourer in a wine vault at Firby, near Bedale and later a labourer and worked in colliery Bishop Auckland and Willington Co Durham
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Mary Ann Farndale 17 March 1853 to 1927 Dressmaker and excellent needlewoman. Strict, but kind and didn’t drink.
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Nora Bovill Adopted Daughter 25 December 1885 to 1 May 1957 Married Rupert Evans in Newcastle in 1916 |
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Margaret Bovill Piddington (nee Evans) 9 March 1917
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William Farndale Evans 2 September 1921 to 17 November 1989 |
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Judith Bremner (nee Piddington) |
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The Ancestry of the Bishop Auckland 1
Line
The Bishop Auckland 1 Line can trace
directly back to 1512 from Thomas Farndale to Nicholas Farndaile
as follows:
Thomas Farndale (FAR00280),
1822-1854
George Farndale, (FAR00215),
1790-1858
William Farndale, (FAR00183),
1760-?
John Farndale ("Old Farndale" of Kilton), (FAR00143),
1724-1807
John Farndale, (FAR00116),
1680-1757
Nicholas Farndale, (FAR00082),
1634-1693
Georgins Ffarndayle, (FAR00073),
1602-1693
George Ffarndayle, (FAR00067),
1570-1606
William Farndale, (FAR00063),
1539-?
Nicholas Farndaile (FAR00059),
1512-1572
You can then follow details of Farndale in the
medieval period who were almost certainly earlier ancestors at Volume
1 of the Farndale directory.
You can then explore Yorkshire
prehistory to give you a further perspective of the distant ancestry of the
people of Farndale.
Chronology of the Bishop Auckland 1 Line
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17 February 1822 |
Thomas Farndale, son of George and Mary Farndale,
was baptised at Easby, near Stokesley. |
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1841 |
Thomas was a servant (probably a farm worker) to
George Jennings and his uncle, Matthew Farndale. |
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25 May 1850 |
Thomas married Isabella Bowes at St Helen, Auckland
(southwest of Bishop Auckland). Thomas was then a pitman. |
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1851 |
William Farndale was born. Thomas was a coal miner at St Helen, Auckland. |
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17 March 1853 |
Mary Ann Farndale was born. |
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28 March 1854 |
Thomas Farndale died aged 32, of phthisis at St
Helens, Auckland. Phthisis is an archaic name for tuberculosis. |
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1871 |
By 1871, Mary was recorded as a dressmaker. Mary
Ann was a respected member of the community, an excellent needlewoman. She
did not drink alcohol herself but it was quite proper for visiting
menfolk to be offered spirits and for Mary Ann to meet with other women in
the ‘front room’ of the Dun Cow where she knew the landlady. Mary Ann visited
Bishop Auckland each Thursday for market day and to meet other family
members. She was strict but extremely kind and is only ever spoken
of in terms of great respect and affection. ‘There is a memory of visiting
‘cousin’ Ginny/Jenny? White in Queen St Redcar and memories of holidays
at Cragg Hall Farm. Matthew (FAR00383), affectionately called Mattha by Mary Ann was an
elderly widower by then and he appeared to enjoy her fussing over
him. There is a recollection of a beautiful rose garden hidden at
the back of the farm seen only by those at the farm, fruit bushes
dripping with berries, taking the farmworkers lunches out to the fields at
midday, being allowed to go shopping on her own to Carlin How or Brotton (an
example of the changes in society as she was only 5 or 6 at the time) and
reading Pilgrims Progress in the rarely used ‘front
room’ A special treat was to be taken for rides in the
side car of Herbert’s (FAR00652) motor bike. Herbert, Matthews’ son was
presumably running the farm by this stage. |
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1881 |
William was a colliery worker. He had moved to Willington,
County Durham. Willington is north of Bishop Auckland. |
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About 1893 |
Mary Ann Farndale, still a spinster, and her brother
William Farndale, a Batchelor, together adopted an 8 year old girl, Nora Bovill (born on 25 December 1885). Mary was always referred to by Nora’s family as
Aunty Farndale. |
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1901 |
William was the caretaker in a Church Institute. |
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1911 |
William was a coke drawer at a colliery. |
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1916 |
Nora Bovill married Rupert
Evans in Newcastle. |
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1919 |
William Farndale died. |
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1 May 1957 |
Nora Evans died. |